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A. J. Emmerich photographic slide collection of animals in Africa

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 213
Scope and Contents

Photographs of animals in nature in Africa.

Dates: 1968

Mary Jobe Akeley papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A342-.A344

Mary Jobe Akeley papers, 1859-1940, reproduction

 Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #76
Scope and Contents

Microfilm of Mary Jobe Akeley papers (1859-1940) relating to Mary Jobe Akeley and her husband Carl E. Akeley.

Dates: Other: 1987

Alousie Boker photographic slide collection of African animals and birds, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 170
Abstract

Photographs of East Africa including game parks in Kenya and Tanzania. Amboseli, Murchison River, Ngorongoro. Birds and safari animals, hippopotamus, lion, elephant, eland, warthog, gerenuk and flamingo among others. Some slides taken in Nairobi.

Dates: undated

B. J. Kaston photographic slide collection, 1951-1962.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 510
Abstract

Photography of animals and plants, mostly in North America and a few in Botswana. Many close up images of various animals in nature including birds, insects, and reptiles as well as some photographs of elephants.

Dates: 1951-1962

Brief notes on a two months' African safari : Collecting the Desert Group for the American Museum of Natural History : typescripts [1935?, 1938?] / by William D. Campbell

 Item
Identifier: Mss .C36
Scope and content Typescripts recount two of Campbell's expeditions: to East Africa, Dec. 1934-Jan. 1935; and to the Dunqulah region of Sudan, Dec. 1937-1938(?); primarily to collect specimens for the AMNH. Both reports are undated, and the account for the Sudan expedition appears to be unfinished. The reports mention Campbell's associates and co-leaders: hunter and photographer Alfred J. Klein in East Africa, and hunter Major W.V.D. Dickinson in Sudan. The appendix to the report on the East African...
Dates: 1935 - 1938

Byron photographic slide collection of Africa, 1959, 1960, 1970.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 144
Abstract

Travel photographs of Africa taken by Oscar Byron and Verna Byron on a "seafari". Places include South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco (Tangier). South Africa: Capetown, Pretoria, Durban, Victoria Falls. Kenya: Mt. Kilimanjaro, Lake Rudolf, Treetops. Egypt: Aden, Suez, Cairo, Giza, Luxor. Possibly used in a slide presentation.

Dates: 1959, 1960, 1970

Carl and Mary in Africa

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 24
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. In the opening sequence, Carl Ethan Akeley (associate in the AMNH Department of Mammalogy, and associate curator and adviser in the AMNH Department of Preparation) watches artist William R. Leigh painting habitat studies for the background of the klipspringer group, one of the dioramas now in the museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. At the campsite, located in the Lukenia Hills 40 miles east of Nairobi, Leigh...
Dates: 1926

Donald Ker photographic slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 257
Scope and Contents

Majority of photographs taken in Alaska (1985) of polar bears. Some birds and landscape images. Seven photographs taken in Africa (1966, 1967, 1971) of lions, elephants, and rhinoceroses.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1966-1985

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Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library 38
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Photographic Slide Collection 23
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Scientific expeditions -- Africa. 5
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Birds -- Africa 3
Explorers -- United States -- Biography 3
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American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology. Archives. 2
Explorers -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 2
Film Collection 2
Mammals -- Africa 2
Moving Images 2
Safaris -- Africa 2
Scientific expeditions -- Canada, Western. 2
South Africa 2
Tanzania 2
Women explorers -- United States -- Biography 2
Adventure and adventurers -- Africa, East 1
Africa -- Antiquities 1
Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration 1
Alaska 1
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Animals -- Alaska 1
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Animals -- Classification 1
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Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) 1
Greece 1
Guinea 1
Hornbills -- Africa, East 1
Hunters -- Africa, Central -- Correspondence. 1
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American Museum of Natural History 16
Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 4
Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 4
Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 4
Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 4
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Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926-1927) 2
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 2
Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 2
Ker, Donald I. (Donald Ian), 1905-1981 2
Klein, Alfred J. 2
Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 2
Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 2
Adamson, Hans Christian 1
Akeley African Expedition to the Belgian Congo of the American Museum of Natural History (1921-1922) 1
American Museum of Natural History. Library 1
Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 1
Archbold Expedition to Arizona (1940) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1st : 1933-1934) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (2nd : 1936-1937) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (3rd : 1938-1939) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (4th : 1953) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (5th : 1956-1957) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (6th : 1959) 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (7th : 1964) 1
Archbold Expeditions 1
Archbold, Richard 1
Australian Expedition (1st : 1921-1922) 1
Beals, Jessie Tarbox 1
Beebe, William, 1877-1962 1
Berkey, Charles Peter, 1867-1955 1
Brass, L. J. (Leonard J.) 1
Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 1
Brown, Barnum 1
Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 1
CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 1
Campbell, William Durant, 1907-1995 1
Cape York Expedition (1948) 1
Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 1
Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 1
Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 1
Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
Correia, José G., 1881-1954 1
Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 1
Denham, Reginald, 1894-1983 1
Department of Education 1
Department of Exhibition 1
Department of Ichthyology 1
Dickinson, W. V. D. (William Vicris Digby), 1889-1948 1
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903 1
Dyer, Walter Gurnee 1
Emmerich, A. J. 1
Fields, Ruth 1
Foster, Robert 1
Frick, Childs, 1883-1965 1
Goodwin, George Gilbert 1
Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
Hellman, Milo, 1872-1947 1
Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 1
Johnson, Osa, 1894-1953 1
Kaston, B. J. (Benjamin Julian), 1906-1985 1
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 1
Lang, Herbert, 1879-1957 1
Larson, Thomas J. (Thomas John) 1
Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 1
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 1
Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 1
Mack, John 1
Martin Johnson African Expedition (2nd : 1924-1928) 1
Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
Mook, Charles Craig, 1887-1966 1
Morden, Irene 1
Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 1
Musser, Guy G. 1
Nathan, Francis 1
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 1
Pallister, John 1
Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 1
Raddatz, Richard 1
Rand, Austin Loomer, 1905-1982 1
Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 1
Richardson, William B. 1
Rockwell, Robert H. 1
Schwarz, Herbert Ferlando, 1883-1960 1
Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
Skinner, H. D. (Henry Devenish), 1886-1978 1
Spalding-Peterson Expedition (1959) 1
Sulawesi Expeditions (1973-1976) 1
Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953 1
Tate, Geoffrey M., 1898-1964 1
Trask, Louise B. 1
Van Deusen, Hobart M. 1
Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
William D. Campbell East African Expedition (1934-1935) 1
William D. Campbell Sudan Expedition (1937-1938) 1
Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918 1
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